This HOWTO was designed for a classic setup of two servers behind a loadbalancer. The aim is to have true redundancy – either server can be unplugged and yet the site will remain up. Notes: You MUST have a third server as a managment node but this can be shut down after the cluster starts. [...]
Windows 2000/2003 Multi-Master Model A multi-master enabled database, such as the Active Directory, provides the flexibility of allowing changes to occur at any DC in the enterprise, but it also introduces the possibility of conflicts that can potentially lead to problems once the data is replicated to the rest of the enterprise. One way Windows [...]
Just over a year I posted how to install VMWare Tools on a Linux Guest Virtual Machine which specifically looks at installing VMWare Tools for Red Hat / CentOS. I recently set up a Debian 5 Lenny virtual machine using VMWare Server and installed the VMWare Tools and the process is fairly similar but I [...]
After installing VMWare tools on a Linux VMWare guest operating system you might get the “VFS: busy inodes on changed media” error message repeating on the console. This post looks at the simple solution to get rid of the repeating message. The error message looks like this: VFS: busy inodes on changed media and keeps [...]
I’ve just set up a new VMWare virtual machine with Kubuntu 8.04 and the scroll wheel on my mouse didn’t work. The steps to correct this are pretty simple and are covered in this post. This should work for any Ubuntu/Kubuntu variant when running in VMWare. In a terminal session open the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. The [...]
VMWare Server 1.0 doesn’t support the same set of features as the more recent versions of VMWare Workstation and VMWare Player, so you may not be able to open virtual machines created with more advanced features. However by simply modifying the configuration file you may be able to start up the virtual machine anyway, as [...]
A couple of days ago I decided to try out Beta 2 of the free VMWare Server version 2. After installing it on Windows Vista I attempted to log into the VMWare Infrastructure Web Access but got an error message saying “Access Denied”. This post looks at how to successfully log into the web access [...]
VMWare Server Console allows you to connect to a VMWare Server virtual machine running either on your local machine or a remote machine. The remote machine might be on your local network or located somewhere on the Internet. This post looks at how to deal with the error message in the VMWare Server Console “unable [...]
I run VMWare Workstation on a Linux host machine with multiple virtual machines as my day to day desktop environments: one with Linux as my primary desktop with email, development environment, web browsing etc, and the second with Windows XP to run applications like Adobe Photoshop, CD label printing, and to test websites in Internet [...]
I have become increasingly dissatisfied with openSUSE, particularly since upgrading from 10.2 to 10.3 with a large number of breakages and general instability after the upgrade. I guess if I’d done a clean install then I wouldn’t be suffering from some of the instabilities, but it’s not something I really considered doing (especially given I [...]
